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Important update: bbPress 2.6.11

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:43:26 +0000

After a long wait, new minor update for bbPress 2.6 is now available, and it is highly recommended to update your website to this latest version of bbPress as soon as possible.

WordPress 5.5 – The great release (or is it?)

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 08:46:04 +0000

On August 11, 2020, a brand new WordPress 5.5, code name Eckstine was released. WordPress 5.5 is one of the biggest WordPress releases in recent years, with a massive number of new features and improvements.

bbPress 2.6: A big step in the right direction

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:25:30 +0000

Wow, that took a while. Six years after bbPress 2.5, years of delays and more than a year of release candidates, we finally have a stable (with few smaller bugs) version of bbPress 2.6 available.

WordPress 5.0: Bebo – The future is Block

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:00:41 +0000

On December 6, 2018, WordPress 5.0 was released, bringing new Block “Love it or Hate it” Editor (previously known as Gutenberg) into the core after 2 years in active development. In this review, I will not go into all the ...

WP Rocket 3.2: Now even faster websites

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:00:35 +0000

WP Rocket 3.2 was released last week, bringing several new features, and very important changes that aim to improve the website loading speed even further.

5 best premium themes for bbPress

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 13:46:40 +0000

Every theme available, free or premium, will work with bbPress because bbPress is made to work with any theme through the theme compatibility layer.

WP Rocket 3.0: With brand new interface

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:00:35 +0000

WP Rocket 3.0 was released last week, bringing brand new interface with few other minor new updates and features. The new version introduces the concept of Add-ons, with more expected in the future.

WP Rocket – The best caching plugin for WordPress

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:00:42 +0000

WP Rocket is an amazing plugin, that has succeeded where so many other plugins have failed: reliable, easy to use and actually capable to increase WordPress website performance.

7 best WordPress themes from ElegantThemes

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 08:11:01 +0000

ElegantThemes is one of the best and oldest premium WordPress themes studios, and in recent years is most famous for the powerful and very nice looking Divi theme and excellent Divi Builder.

SiteGround Hosting Review, Part 2: Hosting Packages

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:00:30 +0000

Dev4Press is using Siteground for almost 2 years now, and from the very start, we used Cloud Hosting plan. But, Siteground offers specialized WordPress hosting plans and many other different hosting packages.

SiteGround Hosting Review, Part 1: Transfer and Performance

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:00:50 +0000

SiteGround is the best website hosting I have ever used, bar none. Dev4Press and few other websites are hosted on SiteGround Cloud server since January 2, 2016, and this review provides details about server performance and complete SiteGround experience so far.

Book: WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginners Guide

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:15:25 +0000

WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginners Guide book is published by Packt Publishing and written by Rachel McCollin. Book contains a lot of information on plugins and themes you need for website, setting up mobile specific media queries, layouts and more.

Book: WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook

Milan Petrovic — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:00:09 +0000

WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook book is published by Packt Publishing and written by Yannick Lefebvre. Book contains 80 practical step-by-step problems with easy to follow solutions to most common problems developer can have when creating plugin for WordPress.

Review of WordPress 3.4

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:00:45 +0000

It's no secret: I don't like how WordPress development is handled over the past year or so. And best thing I can say about WP 3.4: it is a big maintenance release; all important changes are mostly tweaks or API related. My favorite features are Twitter embed and toolbar click top scroll.

Review of WordPress 3.3

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:00:49 +0000

New WordPress is here, and it is first major release in the past 3 years I have mixed feelings about. It has several interesting features for developers, but it doesn't offer anything that important for most WordPress users, with a small drop in the overall performance on admin side.

Plugin: YOURLS WordPress to Twitter

Milan Petrovic — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:30:45 +0000

There are many services to shorten links, including one supported by WordPress, but if you have a great short name domain, best thing to do is to have your own service to shorten links. And to power it, best solution available is YOURLS and its WordPress to Twitter plugin.

Plugin: Regenerate Thumbnails

Milan Petrovic — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:05:36 +0000

Regenerate Thumbnails is a must have plugin for any dynamic website that deals with a lot of images, theme changes and expanded list of image sizes in use. Also, it should be part of any development environment, and for sure has saved me a lot of time in the past few months.

Review of WordPress 3.2

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:00:26 +0000

Brand new WordPress 3.2 is very important release, not so much because of the new features, but because it is a crossroads version that finally puts support for PHP4, mySQL 3/4 and MS IE6 (and IE7 will soon be gone) where they really belong: into history. Check your servers before upgrade!

Plugin: Gravity Forms

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:00:55 +0000

There are many free plugins you can use for adding all sorts of forms into your website, but none of them comes even close to the power and flexibility of Gravity Forms. Long list of features, great implementation, extensions and excellent support are worth paying for.

Service: Clicky Web Analytics

Milan Petrovic — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:15:08 +0000

There are many services on the Internet for tracking website visits and overall analytics, some are free, some not. More than a year ago, I have decided to try Clicky Web Analytics based on a recommendation, and now, it's the only analytics system I am using for all my websites.

Book: WordPress Top Plugins

Milan Petrovic — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:07:59 +0000

WordPress Top Plugins is rather unique book published by Packt Publishing. Book is written by Brandon Corbin, and it contains description and examples of use for some of the most popular WordPress plugins in use with introduction chapter on working with plugins in Wordpress.

Book: jQuery 1.4 Plugin Development, Beginner’s Guide

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:00:43 +0000

Couple of months ago (october 2010) Packt Publishing published another very useful jQuery book. Book is written by Giulio Bai, and it contains very detailed info on how the make plugins for jQuery with several full examples and also info on many useful small plugins and snippets.

Book: Digging Into WordPress v3

Milan Petrovic — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:05:19 +0000

Third version of the Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr amazing book Digging Into WordPress is released last week. I got my updated copy from Chris yesterday. I already reviewed first version of the book last year, so this is only a small reminder post.

Book: WordPress 2.7 Complete

Milan Petrovic — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:04:01 +0000

Few months ago Packt Publishing published interesting book on WordPress 2.7 written by April Hodge Silver and Hasin Hayder. This is a guide for people starting with either WordPress.com or self hosted blogs. All chapters are easy to follow, with many screenshots that will help guide you.